Editor in chief
Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Russia’s Southern Anchor: The Geopolitics of Moscow’s Military Build-Up in Libya
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 18 August 2026 For much of the period since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi […]
The Freedom of the War Zone
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 18 August 2026 There is an obvious paradox in describing life in an active […]
Will I become a Blade Runner?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 18 August 2026 There is something faintly disconcerting about discovering that the science fiction […]
Is Vladimir Putin Pathologically Afraid for His Life?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 17 August 2026 There is an odd paradox at the centre of Vladimir Putin’s […]
Is ChatGPT Getting Better?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 17 August 2026 There is a peculiar difficulty in measuring the progress of artificial […]
Is Lviv Due Another Heavy Russian Strike?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 17 August 2026 There is a temptation, when living through a war of missiles […]
My apologies to the teddy bears
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 17 August 2026 My dear little bears, please forgive me today, I hurried and […]
Seeking assistance with civilian evacuations from Kramatorsk
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 16 August 2026 There are moments in a war when the most valuable thing […]
The Burnham Doctrine: Keynes, Defence and the Reindustrialisation of Britain
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 16 August 2026 Andy Burnham has inherited one of those moments in British history […]
The AI Bubble, the Debt Beneath It and the Next Federal Reserve Rescue
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 16 August 2026 There are two quite different propositions that are frequently confused in […]
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